Joanna Pickering

Joanna Pickering is a British-born actress and playwright. She is known for her Trilogy ''Truth, Lies and Deception'', her acting work in ''Pelleas'' starring alongside Alice Eve, and is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment.

Early life

Pickering was born in Northumberland, England. She was awarded an academic scholarship and studied at La Sagesse School. She was top in her exams and gained 10 A to A* at GCSE. She was accepted into Central High School and studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, and general studies A levels. She graduated from University of Stirling with a Bachelor of Science degree in pure mathematics. After turning down a job in banking, she worked in Southern France selling yachts and high performance cars to fund acting school. She trained in method acting in stage and film at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.

Career

Early acting

Pickering began her acting career working in low-budget, cult, avant-garde, and experimental film. She worked as a fashion model while taking bit roles in UK television, such as the Chris Morris show Nathan Barley, radio plays and theatre work. She performed a minor role in the British comedy ''Svengali''. In 2013, Pickering was cast as the principal role in an adaptation of the novel ''Mersey Boys'' centered around The Beatles, and in its Off-Broadway play. However, the film ran out of post-production budget. In 2014, filming on location in Berlin, Pickering portrayed the dada artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. The film contributed to ''The Filmballad of MamaDada'' screening at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City as a directorial collective film about von Freytag-Loringhoven. It had a world premier at Copenhagen International Film Festival. Pickering then had a supporting role in ''Leave Yourself Alone'' selected for the 2016 Anthology Film Archives Theater in New York City and released on VOD and Amazon Prime in 2017.

Acting 2017–present

In 2018, Pickering was cast for stage in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues performing in New York to raise money for V-day organization. In 2018, she performed on stage as Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth sponsored by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in Park in a televised series due for US Public-access television, as featured in British ''Shakespeare'' magazine.

In 2018, Pickering was cast in a principal role in ''Pelleas'' co-starring alongside Alice Eve and Benn Northover and directed by film maker Josephine Meckseper. The actors perform an adaptation of Maeterlinck's play from the Claude Debussy's opera. In May 2018, ''Pelleas'' screened at Whitney Museum of American Art in ''The Incomplete history of Protest'' exhibition.

In 2019, she completed shooting in a principal role co-starring alongside Blanche Baker and William Sadler in a 1950s thriller ''Alice Fades Away'' with a United States theatrical release for 2020. Pickering also filmed a day player role, as Mary, in Danny Boyle's executive produced movie ''Creation Stories''].

In 2021, Pickering performed two lead roles on stage in her own trilogy in Paris. Reviews were positive and that she played her role with "depth and sophistication."

Pickering won best actress in an independent film a
Los Angeles Film Awards
for her work on Diva. The film also won best film and best director.

Writing

Pickering first performed her own creative writing airing on live radio for ''The Fall of Babylon'' show on Resonance FM in London. She self-published her diaries from traveling nomadically between 2009 and 2012 under a pen name. Her pen name was exposed in press in 2012 and Pickering announced on her website she had removed her writing from the public domain.

Pickering was selected for The Women in Film challenge as screenwriter. Her short film ''Boardwalk'' was made with an all female cast and crew. It screened at Anthology Film Archives

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